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Month: July 2006

This is only pasta salad I’ve ever eaten the next day, when it’s left over, and still liked it. Good shit, man. This makes a boatload, so be sure to have someone onto whom you can pawn half of it off. Also, this is great for taking to potlucks because there isn’t any onion in… Continue reading the new best pasta salad

when half of my blogroll bloggers are making reports from the BlogHer conference in (San Jose?) California. Geeky Mom Dooce Suburban Bliss Fussy I read through the BlogHer reports each year with a combination of envy/longing and indignation. And while my indignation, to be sure, is borne completely out of the envy, I still give… Continue reading it’s that time of year again

That is, blogging while outside. Is damn near necessary on a day like this, when it temp is near 90 and closing up the house does little to keep the stinky heat out. The perks of outside blogging are that one gets to observe, first hand, the oldest son bouncing a golf ball in the… Continue reading outside blogging

As the smartest person I know told me on Friday when I drove to campus to turn in the last exam, I’m dun. D-U-N, dun. So, we left campus. I had all my crazy kids with me, and for whatever reason, it was all I could do to keep from crying as I walked away… Continue reading dun

So, after a full day of swimming lessons, and a trip to the beach with extra kids, and several other things that put me in a foul mood because today is the last day, really, for me to be finishing my last exam, and because I’m a fool I agreed to babysit the day before… Continue reading it came off, finally

Thanks to my mom for this one. Just a quick distraction. Here’s another great thing to eat. For this, however, I make no claims about its healthfulness. In fact, even *I* can only eat this every-so-often because while I love oyster sauce, it can be overpowering. A hunk of extra firm tofu A pile of… Continue reading comfort (food)